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Exam 2 Flashcards

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What are the four essential steps of effective public relations?

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Research, planning, communication, measurement; R.O.P.E– research, objectives, programming, evaluation

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What is research?

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Organized, systematic listening; essential to any PR activity or campaign

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Is it cheaper to do research internally or externally?

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Internally

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What are some ways research is used?

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To achieve credibility with management (internally– make case for why you need more money; externally– establish expertise), to define/segment publics (each public will have different communication), to formulate strategy, to test messages, to prevent crises, to monitor competition, to generate publicity (“One in ten doctors reccomend…”), to measure success

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What is the value of research?

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Provides discussion and debate of relevant topics within the academy; communication research helps practitioners save time, resources, and money

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What is secondary research?

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Any research that exists previously; existing information

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What is primary research?

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New original research

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What is qualitative research?

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Cannot be counted; exploratory, rich data, often not generalizable; soft data; open ended and unstructured questions, ex. focus groups, in-depth interviews, observation

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What is quantitative research?

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Can be counted; descriptive/explanatory, often generalizable; hard data; closed ended questions that requires focused choices; ex. mail surveys, phone calls

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What are some techniques used when conducting research?

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Organizational materials (previous reports), library and online databases, internet, content analysis (look at how media portrays organization, good/bad, who said what), interviews, focus groups (invite sample group to meet to talk, problem is that sample group can misrepresent the general public, 6-12 people + moderator), copy testing, scientific sampling methods

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What is a population?

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The widest possible parameters of people whose opinions you wish to study

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What is a sample size?

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A group that represents the population; usually a sample size of 250 to 500 people will provide data with a 5 to 6 % margin of error while a sample of 100 people will provide about a 10 % margin; the larger the sample size the smaller the margin of error

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What is a non-probability sample?

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Not everyone has an equal chance to be in the sample; ex. intercept (clipboard in the mall survey, not systematic), convenience (survey your class), purposive (interview with specific people)

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What is a probability/random sample?

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Everyone has an equal chance to be in the sample; ex. systematic, quota, proportional; most precise random sample is selected from list naming everyone in the target audience

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What questions are asked prior to scientific research?

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Who is the population?
How large is the sample?
Which sampling method will be used?
How will we contact the sample?
What will we ask and how will we ask it?
How will we analyze the information?
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What are some examples of researching respondents?

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Mail questionnaires (1 % return), telephone surveys, personal interviews (door to door), piggyback surveys (pay survey organizations for 1 or 2 questions, cheap but provides limited responses), web and email surveys

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How do you increase the response rate?

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LOWEST TO HIGHEST RATE OF RETURN:

  • Mailed by a commercial firm to the general public
  • Survey includes issues that the public think are relevant
  • Mailed by an organization to its members
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What is planning?

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Must be strategic and systematic; involves the coordination of multiple methods; asks the question “Where do you want to take the organization?”; looks at a variety of different directions

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What is MBO?

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Management by objectives– employees and management come to an agreement on how something will be judged, based of final outcome on objectives, ex. number of people that come to an event

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What is Ketchum’s Strategic Planning Model?

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Facts, goals, audience, key message

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What are the eight elements of program planning?

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Situation, objectives (desired outcome), audience (research? demographics? who and why you’re targeting), strategy (why campaign will achieve objectives, why _____ will work), tactics (specific activities), calendar/timetable (specific), budget (costs, employee time + out of pocket), measurement (evaluation)

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What is a goal?

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General, mission-orientated, not measurable, big picture, general statement of a direction we want to go

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What is an objective?

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Grows from goals, clear, measurable, addresses awareness, understanding, or behavior change

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What do objectives do?

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Help communicate and coordinate, serve as decision points, provide evaluative benchmark, CLEAR

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What are output objectives?

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What do we do

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What are impact objectives?

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How did the target audience change, impact on audience

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Objectives should be…..

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Clear and narrowly defined, linked to goals, linked to a specific public, linked to a specific outcome, linked to research (should come from somewhere, not made up), written explicitly and clearly, measurable, time defined, designed for a single public and a single response, not unrealistic

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What is an awareness objective?

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Lowest level of objective; attention, comprehension, retention

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What is an acceptance objective?

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Interest, attitude

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What is an action objective?

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Opinion, behavior

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What does the objective matrix look like?

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To [direction] [effect] among [public] about [what] by [measure] within [timeframe]

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What is communication?

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Referred to as execution of a plan, the process and means by which objectives are achieved; tactics are developed to implement the plan

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What are the goals of communication?

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Message exposure, accurate dissemination, acceptance of the message, attitude change, behavior change

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What is Schramm’s model?

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A way to make sure the audience receives the message; source, encoder, signal, decoder, destination; ex. corporation/organization–>us–>medium–>receiver–>receiver’s brain

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What is Gruing’s model?

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A way to make sure the audience receives the message; two-way symmetrical communication, mixed motives (mutual benefit of organization AND public AND focused on organization OR public)

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What is Lasswell’s definition of communication?

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“Who says what, in which channel, to whom, with what effect?”

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What is a passive audience?

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May get information, but it came passively (commercial while watching tv, ad in a magazine), didn’t actually search for the information

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What is an active audience?

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Actively searched for information, personal research

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What isn’t communication?

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The transfer of meaning, not everyone is going to get the same meaning from the same message

40
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What is denotation?

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Specific, dictionary meaning

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What is connotation?

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Feeling associated with meaning

42
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How do you make a message memorable?

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Repetition, delivering information in a variety of ways via multiple communication channels

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What is a primary public?

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Most important, main target

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What is a intervening public?

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Can pass messages on, ex. mass media, opinion leaders

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What is a moderating public?

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Share common goal with primary public, ex. coworkers, classmates

46
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What is an opinion leader?

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pressure and special interest groups, multi-step flow

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What is a formal opinion leader?

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Leaders by virtue of position, ex. president, mayor

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What is an informal opinion leader?

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Friends, neighbors, people who simply have knowledge in a particular area

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What are internal stakeholders?

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Publics internal to the organization, ex. employees

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What are resident stakeholders?

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Consumer advocate groups, issues hit home

51
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What are business stakeholders?

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Business dependent upon, ex. vendors, shippers, etc.

52
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What is the five-step adoption process?

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  • Awareness– educate
  • Interest– person wants to know more and seeks information, active
  • Evaluation– see what others think, want feedback
  • Trial– actually try the product/idea/service
  • Adoption– responding to and using the product/idea
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What is Rogers’ diffusion of innovations?

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Relative advantage (how is it better than now), compatibility (does idea line up with existing values), complexity (how hard is it to adopt idea/product), trialability (can I try it out?), observability (see results of others); the way people adapt technologies, ex. shift from laptop to tablet; now useful for communication patterns (not just objects but ideas)

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What is measurement?

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The evaluation of results against agreed upon objectives established during planning; evaluation improves the public relations process; BEGIN AND END WITH RESEARCH

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What is advanced measurement and evaluation?

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Measure behavior change

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What is intermediate measurement and evaluation?

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Did they internalize the information

57
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What is basic measurement and evaluation?

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Output, did message get to target audience

58
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How is production measured?

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Count how many releases, photos, pitch letters made within a time frame; emphazise quantity instead of quality

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How is message exposure measured?

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Compile clippings/mention (metric is the most widely used), media impressions (placement X circulation/viewership/listenership), internet hits, advertising equivalency (space/time X advertising rate), systematic tracking (analyze volume and content of media placements), information requests (how much did getting information out drive people to find out more?), cost per person, audience attendance

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